Weekend Challenge 9/15/23
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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On Monday, we talked about staying hungry, being curious, and always learning.
I believe it’s a big part of my success — that’s why there is a whole chapter in my book called “Shut your mouth and open your mind.”
I also don’t think you can live a full life if you aren’t out there every single day trying to learn something new.
So this weekend, I want you to put this into practice in your own life. I want you to learn something new.
It could be picking up a book you bought months or years ago about a subject you wanted to learn. It could be finally starting to learn a language like you’ve always planned (we’ve found that our friends at Babbel are great at helping with this). It could be just talking to someone you’ve never spoken to to learn about their challenges or job.
I can tell you that I’ve learned about some of the most fascinating jobs I never would have heard about by sitting down on a movie set with a different crew member at lunch. Once, I sat with someone whose job was dealing with all the waste a movie produces. You might say, “Arnold, that’s just a garbage man.” But I learned about all the challenges of that job and how we can reduce our waste slowly.
When you learn something new, you can find something to do about it. But I don’t need you to do anything else this weekend.
Just go out into the world with curiosity. Open your mind. Learn something. Tell me what you learned about on Twitter.
Stay hungry!
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1 年Spent the last five years, 6-7 days a week, no vacations working on an electric cycle prototype that blurs the lines between a bicycle and electric sports car. It bothers me that the people around me don’t have close to that much energy for anything at all.
Thanks for sharing Arnold, I personally love to learn.
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1 年It’s so true, TILLY is a 17 year old Meningitis survivor and now dubbed thebionicgirl She lives every day with such passion and is like a sponge for knowledge